This has nothing to do with the singularity like not even remotely

He is more akin to a snake oil salesman than the “pioneer of the future” that everyone makes him out to be. Sure, he made a cool car. But it’s the lifetime of late, half-baked, unfulfilled promises that makes him a scammer in my eyes.

Remember when we were supposed to have a colony on mars in 2024? Or the Tesla cybertruck and semi supposed to be out years ago? Remember when Musk said every year for the last decade that level 5 self driving would be ready in Teslas next year? Remember when Musk lied about inventing the Hyperloop despite the concept being around for nearly half a century? Don’t even get me started about TeslaBot. I could go on and on and on…

Neural networks have been around for almost a century now, first being invented at MIT in 1944. It is a very old AI learning model, and only really useful nowadays if u incorporate deep learning in the hidden layer, so that there are many more layers of filtering for input.

The REAL difference is actually in regards to training data. In the past, researchers would have to manually insert their own sample data and biases. But with the advent of social media, smartphone cameras, and google, we now have trillions upon trillions of photos of every single thing you could imagine. If we didn’t have pocket cameras or the internet then none of that would be possible. This is the only reason it had taken so long to see real applications of this technology.